Great man Quote by Allen C. Guelzo

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I…

— Frederick Douglass

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.”

— New York Times April 19 1865

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

Lincoln, the Man of the People

— Edwin Markham

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“it is impossible to have any deep understanding of Lincoln’s speech without thinking about the context of the speech: a memorial service.) Here”

— Terry Marselle

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

“Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized. As regards the matter at hand (as regards him), I am, at…

— George Saunders

“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Orison Swett Marden